The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-10-20

workmen shall shoulder him out, the
sAMBo's HOPE
is not in nationality, but individuality.
AS a a C. there is no future before
him here among us. He has been
violently projected into u politics
and remains there only at his own
cost to u apparent temporary advan-
tages. Yet he is in fact an incubus
on our social system, a dead weight
carried to our hurt, a brake on the
wheels of progress. Let us once at
tain that social organization, though,
where his Importance IS sole represen-
tative of the working classes shall be
diminished to nothing, let the race be
scattered minority strong among over
whelming majorities, without specific
political or industrial Importance, and
an environment of conditions will en-
sure more encouraging to his growth
and prosperity than any that has ever
surrounded his race since his fathers
were first kidnapped by Yankee slav-
ers and sold into %servile bondage. And
this will be to our advantage because
we will have lost a load and gained a
help. If this be true are we not N
during evils we might cure as less in
grade than others hat might come
upon us? Are we not prone supinely
praying to Jupiter, when we ought to
have our coats off and our shoulders
at the wheel? Are we not drifting
where we ought to be rowing? Are
we not waiting where we ought to be
making opportunity? 1t certainly
seems SO to the writer. And here en-
quiry comes as to
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
To answer this we must first agree
we want to do something. Once
bring the public mind to an active de-
sire and it will clearly %apprehend that
the n thing needed is a sturdy, per.
sistent and healthy flow of immigra.
ton towards our State. For certainly
anything less than this would be
merely waiting until the natural in.
crease of the white population now
domiciled here should outstep the in.
crease among the blacks to the needed
point. If immigration is to be de.
sired where is it to come from, how
crn it be induced towards US? Let
our journalists, our publicists, our
statesmen, our wise men of every walk
in life consider of these things and
help us answer these questions. To
the writer they seem momentous. We
are standing still where we ought to
be going ahead. Generations are be-
ing cheated out of their fair share of
progress, cultivation, refinement and
knowledge. With great natural ad-
vantages in climate and resources our
attractions r passed by and the I'M
interrupted tide of immigration trends
Westward towards more inhospitable
chimes and more sterile soils, where
all the conditions of life natural and
artificial, are harder than here. Let
us find out why this is and the ques-
ton how shall we induce immigration
Will Lnon DE nall solved.
1t cannot be doubted that the first
great factor against immigration to
the South was our own Indifference to
tor rather positive objection to it,
III slavery times. In those days the
tide first set Westward. Then, it was
fostered directly by the interest West
ern communities took in the matter
and the active efforts they made in this
behalf. These in turn were supple
mented by the interested efforts of
great railway trunk lines until finally
the Westward tendency Of immigra-
ton has become almost a matter of
course. In advertising and crying up
their wares these great corporation
landowners, carries and others inter-
ested in Western development have
never for a moment foregone the ad-
vantage to be gained from an uninter-
rupted
SYSTEMATIC DISTRACTION OF THE SOUTH.
To the journeying immigrant, to
the possible settler, even at his home,
ere he has pondered becoming an ex-
lie from his native land, a glorifed
picture of promise in Western Amer
lea has been commonly held up, the
shadows in which are abuse of South
ern sections of the United States and
warnings against selecting a home
there. The oldest bugaboo in this
game of gain is the negro himself with
whom, foreigners are led to believe,